Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.
Opportunity makes a thief.
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.