That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.