Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness

To proceed from one truth to another, and connect distant propositions by regular consequences, is the great prerogative of man

Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.
We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it