For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves. |
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. |
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. |
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. |
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. |
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. |
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune. |
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. |
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. |
Houses are built to live in and not to look on. |
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. |
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had |
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. |
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. |
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. |