By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.