Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
No possession is gratifying without a companion.
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
Wisdom comes to no one by chance.
You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.