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

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

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

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.