In The Faculty Of Writing Nonsense, Stupidity

One Of The Greatest Pains To Human Nature Is The Pain Of A New Idea. It...makes You Think That After All, Your Favorite Notions May Be Wrong, Your Firmest Beliefs Ill-founded....naturally, Therefore, Common Men Hate A New Idea, And Are Disposed More Or Less To Ill-treat The Original Man Who Brings It.

The Cure For Admiring The House Of Lords Is To Go And Look At It.

But Of All Nations In The World The English Are Perhaps The Least A Nation Of Pure Philosophers.

The Whole History Of Civilization Is Strewn With Creeds And Institutions Which Were Invaluable At First, And Deadly Afterwards

I'm Not The Kind Of Writer Who's Able To Block Out The World Around Me. I'm Mindful Of Our Own Haves And Have-nots, How Our Culture Often Blames And Punishes The Have-nots. I Worry About Our Precarious Economic And Political Climate.