To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.