The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place as it does for the rest of us.

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy, whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People with their wisdom and unwisdom, we have to say Like People like Government.

Nevertheless it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

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