If you can talk about it, why paint it?

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.