We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
States are great engines moving slowly.
A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.