The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.