You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Some of the teams have been pretty tough.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

It were a real increase of human happiness could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels or rendered otherwise invisible, and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings till they emerged sadder and wiser at the age of twenty-five.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore, there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.