If By Gaining Knowledge We Destroy Our

Books Seem To Me To Be Pestilent Things, And Infect All That Trade In Them...with Something Very Perverse And Brutal. Printers, Binders, Sellers, And Others That Make A Trade And Gain Out Of Them Have Universally So Odd A Turn And Corruption Of Mind That They Have A Way Of Dealing Peculiar To Themselves, And Not Conformed To The Good Of Society And That General Fairness Which Cements Mankind.

The Picture Of A Shadow Is A Positive Thing.

Error Is None The Better For Being Common, Nor Truth The Worse For Having Lain Neglected.

The Great Question Which, In All Ages, Has Disturbed Mankind, And Brought On Them The Greatest Part Of Their Mischiefs ... Has Been, Not Whether Be Power In The World, Nor Whence It Came, But Who Should Have It.

There Is Frequently More To Be Learned From The Unexpected Questions Of A Child Than The Discourses Of Men.