 We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. |
| The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. |
| I say there is no darkness but ignorance. |
| For my part, it was Greek to me. |
| Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. |
| Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong. |
| Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. |
| I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. |
| Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. |
| Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. |
| Farewell, fair cruelty. |
| Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything. |
| O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! |
| When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. |
| 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. |
| If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. |
| To do a great right do a little wrong. |
| The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. |
| Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. |
| Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. |
