Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.