The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

In charity there is no excess.

Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.