The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

One insult pocketed soon produces another.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.