The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

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

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.