Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

No one can bring to God what you can.