A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. |
Acorns were good until bread was found. |
Age will not be defied. |
All rising to a great place is by a winding stair |
All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great |
As in nature, things move violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. |
As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. |
Ask a counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest |
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man |
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy i |
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. |
Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others |
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. |
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. |
Books will speak plain when counselors blanch |