[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.