If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.