If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.