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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint. - [Hypocrisy] A gamester, the greater master he is in his art, the worse man he is. - [Gambling] A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. - [Grace] A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. - [War] A liar is a bravo towards God and a coward towards men. - [Lying] A man dies as often as he loses his friends. - [Friends] A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. - [Matrimony] A man shall see, where there is a house full of children, one or two of the eldest restricted, and the youngest ruined by indulgence; but in the midst, some that are, as it were, forgotten, who many times, nevertheless, prove the best. - [Childhood : Children] A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. - [Revenge] A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return. - [Thought] A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. - [Grace] A prudent question is one half of wisdom. - [Questions] A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. - [Questions] A trust is an obligation of conscience of one to the will of another. - [Legal Maxims] A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - [Opportunity] Alchemy may be compared to the man who told his sons he had left the gold buried somewhere in his vineyard; where they by digging found no gold, but by turning up the mould, about the roots of their vines, procured a plentiful vintage. So the search and endeavors to make gold have brought many useful inventions and instructive experiments to light. - [Alchemy] All rising to a great place is by a winding stair. - [Progress] All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness. - [Intemperance] All the operations of Nature are gradual. - [Moderation] All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great. - [Admiration] Ambition is like choler, which is a humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped, but if it be stopped, and cannot have its way, it becometh fiery, and thereby malign and venomous. - [Ambition] An angry man who suppresses his passions thinks worse than he speaks; and an angry man that will chide speaks worse than he thinks. - [Anger] Aphorisms, representing a knowledge broken, do invite men to inquire further; whereas methods carrying the show of a total do secure men, as if they were at furthest. - [Apothegms] As atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself above human frailty. - [Atheism] As those wines which flow from the first treading of the grape are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press, which gives them the roughness of the husk and stone, so are those doctrines best and sweetest which flow from a gentle crush of the scriptures and are not wrung into controversies and commonplaces. - [Doctrine] Displaying page 1 of 12 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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