No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an... Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of our ...most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bes...tial.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But your discretions better can persuade Than I am able to instruct or teach,... And therefore, as we hither came in peace, So let us still continue peace and love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »