Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.