We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.