Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.
We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
Every Country hath its Machiavel.
For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.