All Quotes

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. ”

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. ”

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. ”

No truly great person ever thought themselves so. ”

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. ”

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. ”

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about. ”

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. ”

The incentive to ambition is the love of power. ”

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. ”