It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands
For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.
The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.