Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Henry BolingbrokeDr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.
Henry BolingbrokeThe shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
Henry Bolingbroke