There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Nature never gives everything at once.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.

There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.