Great changes are easier than small ones.
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."
God's first creature, which was light.
As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.