By indignities men come to dignities.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast a flat lunch and a miserable dinner.
People usually think according to their inclinations speak according to...
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of...
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Knowledge is power.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see...
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of...
Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper.
Antiquities are history defaced or some remnants of history which have...
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself...
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never...
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are...
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
He that gives good advice builds with one hand he that gives good counsel...
Acorns were good until bread was found.
God's first creature which was light.
But men must know that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for...
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us on...
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism but larger amounts bring us back...
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human...
To the mind God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.
