A Good Portion Of Speaking

Reflection Is A Flower Of The Mind, Giving Out Wholesome Fragrance; But Revelry Is The Same Flower, When Rank And Running To Seed.

I Consider As Lovers Of Books Not Those Who Keep Their Books Hidden In Their Store-chests And Never Handle Them, But Those Who, By Nightly As Well As Daily Use Thumb Them, Batter Them, Wear Them Out, Who Fill Out All The Margins With Annotations Of Many Kinds, And Who Prefer The Marks Of A Fault They Have Erased To A Neat Copy Full Of Faults.

Human Affairs Are So Obscure And Various That Nothing Can Be Clearly Known. This Was The Sound Conclusion Of The Academic Sceptics, Who Were The Least Surly Of Philosophers.

He Who Doesn't Sin, Is The Greatest Sinner Of All.

If You Look At History You'll Find That No State Has Been So Plagued By Its Rulers As When Power Has Fallen Into The Hands Of Some Dabbler In Philosophy Or Literary Addict.