“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”

“Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.”

“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.”

“Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.”

“Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend.”

“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”

“He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.”