In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.