What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science.

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.