Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.
Ask counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
See?" she heard Shane yell at the kitchen. "She doesn't stomp around like a cattle stampede!" "Bite me, Collins! No bacon for you, either!
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on.
The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.
Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.