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

But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends