1. "A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."
2. ”I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.”
3. “If men are for a long time accustomed only to one sort or method of thoughts, their minds grow stiff in it, and do not readily turn to another...I do not propose...a variety and stock of knowledge, but a variety and freedom of thinking...an increase of the powers and activity of the mind, not...an enlargement of its possessions.”
4. “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
5. ”New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.”
6. “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
7. “That which is static and repetitive is boring.
That which is dynamic and random is confusing.
In between lies art.”
8. “The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
9. “The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
10. “We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.”
11. “Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”
