Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.