What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

I believe... that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

One of our fan-coloring biographers, who paints small men as very great, inquired of me lately with real affection too, whether he might consider as authentic,…

Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth agains…

In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Be there, for once and all, Severed great minds from small, Announced to each his station in the Past! Was I, the world arraigned, Were they, my soul disdained…