We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
I would have every man write what he knows and no more.
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.