Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.