God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

Time is the author of authors.

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.'

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.