"I am a gadfly who God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching all of you."

"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you desire to be thought to be."

"For I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons and your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the sou…"

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"Why should we pay so much attention to what 'most people' think?"