It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.