“Nothing is so mischievous as the apotheosis of error.”

“It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.”

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.”

“For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances of things and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their subtler differences; as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of imposture." -Francis Bacon ”

“Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.”

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

“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”