If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
William Gilbert

Philosophy is for the few.
William Gilbert

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
William Gilbert

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
William Gilbert

Man is nature's sole mistake.
William Gilbert

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
William Gilbert

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
William Gilbert