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 | "The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated,
shoots up into the rankest weeds." | |
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Found in the topic Cultivated.
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| "Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or
dogmatical on any subject." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Human life is more governed by fortune than by reason." | |
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Found in the topic Feelings.
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| "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." | |
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Found in the topic Liberty.
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| "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the
testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous
than the fact which it endeavours to establish." | |
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Found in the topic Miracle.
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| "When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most
mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and
suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities." | |
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Found in the topic Conceit.
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| "If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school
metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, `Does it contain any abstract
reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. `Does it contain any
experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No.
Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and
illusion." | |
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Found in the topic Metaphysics.
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| "Truth springs from argument amongst friends." | |
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Found in the topic Argument.
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| "He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more
excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances." | |
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Found in the topic Character.
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| "The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the
avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any
obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be
esteemed a benefactor to mankind." | |
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Found in the topic Learn.
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