From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

That government that governs least governs best.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But heresy it certainly is.

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.