It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.