A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
In all superstition wise men follow fools.
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.