The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.