Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.