Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
They that deny a God destroy man’s nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
Friends are thieves of time.
Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people
Riches are for spending.
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
The mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
To choose time is to save time.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
In charity there is no excess.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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