The things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished. David Copperfield
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end. Essays
Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill. Book II
Reading is thinking with some one else's head instead of one's own. Parerga and Paralipomena
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