Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
All colours will agree in the dark.
Knowledge is power.
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.
He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New.
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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