People prefer to believe what they want to be true.
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.
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.