The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.