Brevity: To Say At Once Whatever Is

Honest Unaffected Distrust Of Human Abilities Under All Circumstances Is The Surest Sign Of Strength Of Mind.

We Accumulate Our Opinions At An Age When Our Understanding Is At Its Weakest.

People Who Have Read A Good Deal Rarely Make Great Discoveries. I Do Not Say This In Excuse Of Laziness, But Because Invention Presupposes An Extensive Independent Contemplation Of Things.

How Might Letters Be Most Efficiently Copied So That The Blind Might Read Them With Their Fingers?

How Did Mankind Ever Come By The Idea Of Liberty? What A Grand Thought It Was!