Every man praises his own wares.
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.
Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.
Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.
A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.