The Reformative Effect Of Punishment Is A

At The Age Of Eleven, I Began Euclid, With My Brother As My Tutor. ... I Had Not Imagined That There Was Anything So Delicious In The World. After I Had Learned The Fifth Proposition, My Brother Told Me That It Was Generally Considered Difficult, But I Had Found No Difficulty Whatsoever. This Was The First Time It Had Dawned On Me That I Might Have Some Intelligence.

One Of The Chief Obstacles To Intelligence Is Credulity, And Credulity Could Be Enormously Diminished By Instructions As To The Prevalent Forms Of Mendacity.

Men Fear Thought As They Fear Nothing Else On Earth - More Than Ruin, More Even Than Death.

Politics Is Largely Governed By Sententious Platitudes Which Are Devoid Of Truth

It Is A Natural Propensity To Attribute Misfortune To Someone's Malignity.