Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?