In science, mistakes always precede the truth. - Achille Vicart

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

The Americans are mostly engaged in trade and plantations. Their chief object is to make money. And, in truth, money is freedom.

These horrible affairs in France are the offspring of fanaticism. Yes, sir; if the reformation had taken place there, as well as here, religion and the clergy would have been respected, as they are here. Fanatics make atheists. If I cannot believe in God without believing that a wafer is God, my reason abjures the deity. I wish religion to exist: it is of infinite use to society, and I therefore wish it to be as rational as possible. A synod of the English church might order several objectionable tenets and expressions of our worship to be altered. I love those reformations that prevent revolutions, by keeping pace with the gradual progress of reason and knowledge.