A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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 seashore, 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.