As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."