“I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.”

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.”

“To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.”