A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.

History is a bath of blood.

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.