 I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Topics: Age |
| God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. |
| As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. |
| By indignities men come to dignities. |
| The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. |
| Acorns were good until bread was found. |
| They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. |
| Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. |
| Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. |
| Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. |
| Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Topics: Anger |
| A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. |
| Silence is the virtue of fools. |
| Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. |
