A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.