Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Wounds cannot be cured without searching.
Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.