It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.