"udacious Titan of the modern age, possessing essentially a combative intellect; a poet and philosopher militant, who stood alone making war upon the authority of Aristotle in science, of Machiavelli in statecraft, and of Petrarch in art."

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

"Despite the perpetual adulation of ourselves which is always going on, and the constant recitals of our pro…"

"Political economy … founds its theory of society upon the self-seeking of the isolated individual. Politica…"

"Rats and mice are not generally regarded as pets, but as pests; they have few defenders. Yet the pain a rat…"

"Crazy people do not apply the principle of scientific parsimony... they shoot for the baroque."

"He was one of the few judges who could occasionally poke fun at himself. He told me that once he was sittin…"