I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighter; and it is some consolation that the desolation by these maniacs of one part of the earth is the means of improving it in other parts. Let the latter be our office, and let us milk the cow, while the Russian holds her by the horns, and the Turk by the tail.

We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.