There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."