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

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.