If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

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

You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject it, and prove in my opinion that it is premature, insufficient and false. These latter are joined by the British chemists; and upon the whole, I think the new nomenclature will be rejected, after doing more harm than good. There are some good publications in it, which must be translated into the ordinary chemical language before they will be useful.