That Which Above All Other

It Is Impossible To Love And To Be Wise.

The Human Understanding When It Has Once Adopted An Opinion (either As Being The Received Opinion Or As Being Agreeable To Itself) Draws All Things Else To Support And Agree With It.

The Voice Of The People Has About It Something Divine: For How Otherwise Can So Many Heads Agree Together As One?

There Is A Cunning Which We In England Call "the Turning Of The Cat" In The Pan; Which Is, When That Which A Man Says To Another, He Says It As If Another Had Said It To Him.

That Which Above All Other Yields The Sweetest Smell In The Air Is The Violet.