Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

Opportunity makes a thief.