Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.