An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

A strong body makes the mind strong.

The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still probably moving in that train. For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another and another might be lost, till this whole system of things should evanish by piece-meal; a conclusion not warranted by the local disappearance of one or two species of animals, and opposed by the thousands and thousands of instances of the renovating power constantly exercised by nature for the reproduction of all her subjects, animal, vegetable, and mineral.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.