One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.