He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

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.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

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