There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.