the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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...
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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.
The worst men often give the best advice.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
By indignities men come to dignities.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.