Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.