One insult pocketed soon produces another.

Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Health is worth more than learning.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.