Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

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