It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.