The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

It's a great pity that the Royal Society cannot itself afford to purchase them so that they could be restored to our collection of documents from which they were removed at some point during our early history.

The pace and in some cases the nature of changes happening in society are occurring so rapidly that even our best efforts at incremental change leave us running in order to standstill,

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library

Education is the cornerstone of a society, ... The most important investment we can make collectively and individually is in education. It amounts to an investment in the development of the province.