History Can Be Formed From Permanent Monuments

Ignorance, Madam, Pure Ignorance.

Instead Of Rating The Man By His Performances, We Rate Too Frequently The Performances By The Man.

The Life Of A Solitary Man Will Be Certainly Miserable, But Not Certainly Devout.

I Have Often Thought That There Has Rarely Passed A Life Of Which A Judicious And Faithful Narrative Would Not Be Useful; For Not Only Every Man Has, In The Mighty Mass Of The World, Great Numbers In The Same Condition With Himself, To Whom His Mistakes And Miscarriages, Escapes And Expedients, Would Be Of Immediate And Apparent Use; But There Is Such A Uniformity In The State Of Man, Considered Apart From Adventitious And Separable Decorations And Disguises, That There Is Scarce Any Possibility Of Good Or Ill But Is Common To Human Kind.

All Intellectual Improvement Arises From Leisure.