Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.

s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.