The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

The people are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he alrea…

I heard what you were saying. You - you know nothing of my work. You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally …