"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker" |
"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker" |
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty |
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence |
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability |
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability |
Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagernes |
And what is the greatest number? Number one. |
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity |
Avarice, the spur of industry |
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man |
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. |
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them |
But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature |
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. |