Time is the author of authors.

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

By far the best proof is experience.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see 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.