There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.