"Resort is had to ridicule only when..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds and affections of our youth... This canker is eating on the vitals of our existence, and if not arrested at once, will be beyond remedy.”

“Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.”

“Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.”

“To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.”

“Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.”

“Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.”

“Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.”

“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.”

“One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.”