None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.