The tree falls not at the first stroke.
A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.
A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.