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...
Friendship increases in visiting friends but in visiting them seldom.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many...
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
One way or another we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life and dedicate ourselves to that.