When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

No book so bad but some part may be of use.

Chance is a second master.