Whenever a new finding is reported to the world people say - It is probably not true. Later on, when the reliability of a new finding has been fully confirmed, people say - OK, it may be true but it has no real significance. At last, when even the significance of the finding is obvious to everybody, people say - Well, it might have some significance, but the idea is not new.

Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?