Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.

Let us permit nature to have her way; she understands her business better than we do.

"Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by the dozen."

"The sciences and arts are not cast in a mold, but formed and shaped little by little, by repeated handling and polishing, as bears lick their cubs into shape at leisure."

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.