My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and infect us all. They poison our minds, before we can resist, or so much as suspect their malignity. Like the barbarous directors of the Eastern seraglios, they deprive us of our vitality, and fit us for their despicable employment from the cradle.

My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.