The sun - my almighty physician.

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.

A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms of the science, and to give every substance a new name, the composition, and especially the termination of which, shall define the relation in which it stands to other substances of the same family.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property.

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.