And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.

In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.