Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
He who pays the piper can call the tunes.
Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.
There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.