The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.
Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.
All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.