I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.
Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed
With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.