Time is the author of authors.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.