All Is To Be Doubted.

For Each Of Us There Is A Set Limit To Our Intellectual Powers Which We Cannot Pass.

There Is A Little Gland In The Brain In Which The Soul Exercises Its Functions In A More Particular Way Than In The Other Parts.

My Third Maxim Was To Try Always To Conquer Myself Rather Than Fortune, And To Change My Desires Rather Than The Order Of The World, And Generally To Accustom Myself To Believing That There Is Nothing Entirely In Our Power Except Our Thoughts, So That After We Have Done Our Best Regarding Things External To Us, Everything In Which We Do Not Succeed Is For Us Absolutely Impossible.

The Reading Of All Good Books Is Like A Conversation With The Finest Minds Of Past Centuries.

Good Sense Is, Of All Things Among Men, The Most Equally Distributed; For Every One Thinks Himself So Abundantly Provided With It, That Those Even Who Are The Most Difficult To Satisfy In Everything Else, Do Not Usually Desire A Larger Measure Of This Quality Than They Already Possess.