the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of...
I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
The worst men often give the best advice.
Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.