Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

I'm used to the older-fashioned way of mixing: playing with three decks, always turning and twisting knobs manically.

Someone you haven't met yet is already dreaming of adoring you.

Retire? I will never retire.

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

If we don't figure out global warming, we're not going to be able to be here.

Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.