The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. - Thomas Jefferson

"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"

"I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor."

"They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live."

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."