All People Are Most Credulous

All The Inducements Of Early Society Tend To Foster Immediate Action; All Its Penalties Fall On The Man Who Pauses; The Traditional Wisdom Of Those Times Was Never Weary Of Inculcating That "delays Are Dangerous," And That The Sluggish Man The Man "who Roasteth Not That Which He Took In Hunting" Will Not Prosper On The Earth, And Indeed Will Very Soon Perish Out Of It. And In Consequence An Inability To Stay Quiet, An Irritable Desire To Act Directly, Is One Of The Most Conspicuous Failings Of Mankind.

The Maxim Of Science Is Simply That Of Common Sense-simple Cases First; Begin With Seeing How The Main Force Acts When There Is As Little As Possible To Impede It, And When You Thoroughly Comprehend That, Add To It In Succession The Separate Effects Of Each Of The Incumbering And Interfering Agencies.

No Great Work Has Ever Been Produced Except After A Long Interval Of Still And Musing Meditation.

In Early Times Every Sort Of Advantage Tends To Become A Military Advantage; Such Is The Best Way, Then, To Keep It Alive. But The Jewish Advantage Never Did So; Beginning In Religion, Contrary To A Thousand Analogies, It Remained Religious.

Civilized Ages Inherit The Human Nature Which Was Victorious In Barbarous Ages, And That Nature Is, In Many Respects, Not At All Suited To Civilized Circumstances.