The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are the substantial part of the world; like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.