We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.