O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
Force works on servile natures, not the free.