Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.