Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

To know truly is to know by causes.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.