- I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity.

Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

- have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

-It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.