Tuesday 28 February 2017

Monday 27 February 2017

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Sunday 26 February 2017

Saturday 25 February 2017

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Friday 24 February 2017

Thursday 23 February 2017

Reading is equivalent to thinking 
with someone else's head 
instead of with one's own.

Wednesday 22 February 2017

Tuesday 21 February 2017

The spirit of resistance to government 
is so valuable 
on certain occasions 
that I wish it to be
always kept alive.

Monday 20 February 2017


Sunday 19 February 2017

There is nothing 
with which it is so dangerous to take liberties 
as liberty itself.

Saturday 18 February 2017

Friday 17 February 2017

They know enough 
who know how to learn.

Thursday 16 February 2017

Wednesday 15 February 2017

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Tuesday 14 February 2017

Monday 13 February 2017

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, 
for they often endure long; 
but false views, 
if supported by some evidence, 
do little harm, 
for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Sunday 12 February 2017

Saturday 11 February 2017

He who closes his ears 
to the views of others 
shows little confidence 
in the integrity of his own views.

Friday 10 February 2017

Thursday 9 February 2017

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. 
It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. 
Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Wednesday 8 February 2017

Tuesday 7 February 2017

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Monday 6 February 2017

Sunday 5 February 2017

Everybody gets so much information all day long 
that they lose their common sense.

Saturday 4 February 2017

Friday 3 February 2017

Doubt everything 
or believe everything: 
these are two equally convenient strategies. 
With either 
we dispense with the need for reflection.

Thursday 2 February 2017

Wednesday 1 February 2017

Science is imagination 
in the service of 
the verifiable truth.