In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
If you can talk about it, why paint it?
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.
If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.