And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. The Alchemist

To judge the appearances we receive of things, we should need a judicatory instrument; to verify this instrument, we should need a demonstration; to rectify this demonstration, we should need an instrument: so here we are arguing in a circle. Seeing the senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason, so here we are retreating backwards to all eternity. Essays

"Have no friends not equal to yourself." The Analects of Confucius

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. The Boscombe Valley Mystery