I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.

We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.