Where cheating is, there's mischief there.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.