To Be Rational Is So Glorious A

I Pretend Not To Teach, But To Inquire.

Where There Is No Law There Is No Freedom.

Practice Conquers The Habit Of Doing, Without Reflecting On The Rule.

These Two, I Say, Viz. External Material Things, As The Objects Of Sensation, And The Operations Of Our Own Minds Within, As The Objects Of Reflection, Are To Me The Only Originals From Whence All Our Ideas Take Their Beginnings.

All Rising To Great Place Is By A Winding Stair; And If There Be Factions, It Is Good To Side A Man's Self Whilst He Is In The Rising, And To Balance Himself When He Is Placed.