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.
Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
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.
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