I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all of their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.