If The World Were Good For Nothing

It Is The Vice Of Scholars To Suppose That There Is No Knowledge In The World But That Of Books.

In Exploring New And Doubtful Tracts Of Speculation, The Mind Strikes Out True And Original Views; As A Drop Of Water Hesitates At First What Direction It Will Take, But Afterwards Follows Its Own Course.

We Are Not Satisfied To Be Right, Unless We Can Prove Others To Be Quite Wrong.

It Is Better To Drink Of Deep Grief Than To Taste Shallow Pleasures.

A Proud Man Is Satisfied With His Own Good Opinion, And Does Not Seek To Make Converts To It.