Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives..

Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall con….

It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims a….

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest..

It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away..

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness..

Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need..

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to ve….

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things..