Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning if they be accompanied by a bad training are a much greater misfortune.
I never did anything worth doing by accident nor did any of my inventions...
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...
The opposite of a fact is falsehood but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
