If We Give Up Freedom

...it Is Prodigious The Quantity Of Good That May Be Done By One Man If He Will Make A Business Of It.

Mankind Are Very Odd Creatures: One Half Censure What They Practice, The Other Half Practice What They Censure; The Rest Always Say And Do As They Ought.

To Be Thrown Upon One's Own Resources, Is To Be Cast In The Very Lap Of Fortune.

To Be Proud Of Virtue, Is To Poison Yourself With The Antidote.

The Rapid Progress Of The Sciences Makes Me Sorry, At Times, That I Was Born So Soon. Imagine The Power That Man Will Have Over Matter, A Few Hundred Years From Now. We May Learn How To Remove Gravity From Large Masses, And Float Them Over Great Distances. Agriculture Will Double Its Produce With Less Labor. All Diseases Will Surely Be Cured... Even Old Age. If Only The Moral Sciences Could Be Improved As Well. Perhaps Men Would Cease To Be Wolves To One Another... And Human Beings Could Learn To Be Human.