Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.