Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.
It was a high speech of Seneca that “The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”
Whatever you can, count.
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.
Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life...
There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.
For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.
God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.
There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.
The wisdom of the ancients.
The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.
Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.
The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.
Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people’s life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.