If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.