The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

:it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives:

The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit …

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to sup…

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either - although this actual person is abominably good-looking - it does not d…