Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Acorns were good until bread was found.