Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.
Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.