Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

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