Knowlege is power. |
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. |
Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones. |
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. |
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him ... when the hill stood still, he was never a wit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.' |
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill'. |
Man prefers to think what he prefers to be true |
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection |
Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. |
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use |
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. |
Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God |
Measure not dispatch by the time of sitting, but by the advancement of business |
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom |
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. |