Epistemology

"I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute…"

"I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me."

"Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder."

"Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind."

"Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle."

"Yes, you can--if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritic…"

"A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all – that is myself."

"This that I am, whatever it be, is mere flesh and a little breathe and the ruling Reason"

"The painter strives and competes with nature...There is nothing in all nature without its reason. If you know the reason, you do not need the experience..."

"To be angry with a man is to hate him; to hate him is to wish him harm; but to wish him well, even if he has done you harm, is the mark of a great mind."

"It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great."