What Is Now Proved Was Once Only

The True Method Of Knowledge Is Experiment.

Truth Can Never Be Told So As To Be Understood And Not Be Believed.

Dear Mother, Dear Mother, The Church Is Cold, But The Ale-house Is Healthy And Pleasant And Warm.

Acts Themselves Alone Are History, And These Are Neither The Exclusive Property Of Hume, Gibbon Nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, Nor Herodotus. Tell Me The Acts, O Historian, And Leave Me To Reason Upon Them As I Please; Away With Your Reasoning And Your Rubbish. All That Is Not Action Is Not Worth Reading.

It Is An Easy Thing To Talk Of Patience To The Afflicted.