Aught Quotes

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.