Reading maketh a full man.

Always let losers have their words.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

Science is but an image of the truth.