Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.