Books, the children of the brain.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.