Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.