Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.