Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.