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

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.