Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Silence is the virtue of fools. The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.