This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.