Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.