History Is The Long, Difficult And Confused

Every Satisfaction He Attains Lays The Seeds Of Some New Desire, So That There Is No End To The Wishes Of Each Individual Will.

Every Child Is In A Way A Genius; And Every Genius Is In A Way A Child.

A Word Too Much Always Defeats Its Purpose.

Virtue Is As Little To Be Acquired By Learning As Genius; Nay, The Idea Is Barren, And Is Only To Be Employed As An Instrument, In The Same Way As Genius In Respect To Art. It Would Be As Foolish To Expect That Our Moral And Ethical Systems Would Turn Out Virtuous, Noble, And Holy Beings, As That Our Aesthetic Systems Would Produce Poets, Painters, And Musicians.

The Fundament Upon Which All Our Knowledge And Learning Rests Is The Inexplicable.