Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

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.

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.