Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

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

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of sulphates, sulphites, and sulphures, may have served no end than to have retarded the progress of science by a jargon, from the confusion of which time will be requisite to extricate us.