Things are not always what they seem.
Phaedrus, A.D.8
You should play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; You would pluck out the heart of my mystery.
Shakespeare
Truth will out, even in an affidavit.
Mark Twain
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke
Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Francis Bacon
And do as adversaries do in law, strike mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
Shakespeare
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Francis Bacon
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth.
Francis Bacon
Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? After all, fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain