It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

I care not a straw for the opinions of the world.

That government is best which governs least.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Those who have taken upon them to lay down the law of nature as a thing already searched out and understood, whether they have spoken in simple assurance or pr…

That children dream not the first half year, that men dream not in some countries, with many more, are unto me sick men's dreams, dreams out of the Ivory gate,…

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in nu…