It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.