Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.