the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

The world is my representation

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.