Time is the greatest innovator.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.