The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.