Recent Thoughts

To be alone

I find that it is somewhat more tolerable to be always alone than never able to be so.

Reading

The principal use of reading to me is, that by various objects it rouses my reason, and employs my judgment, not my memory.

There is nothing useless

…there is nothing useless in Nature – not even uselessness.

Pleasure and pain

Following Epicurus I believe pleasures are to be avoided if they result in greater pain, and pain is to be welcomed if it results in greater pleasure.

To be better loved

I have no wish to be better loved or better valued when dead than when alive.