It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.