Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason. (272)

Men spend their time chasing a ball or a hare; it is the very sport of kings. (141)

Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak. (330)

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it. (535)

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

For knowledge of the first principles, like space, time, motion, number, is as solid as any derived through reason, and it is on such knowledge, coming from th…

'Believe only half of what you see, and nothing that you hear,' is a cynical saying, and yet less bitter than at first appears. It does not argue that human na…