It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
James BoswellAs all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.
James BoswellIf a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
James BoswellMy curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.
James Boswell