“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”
Nature“When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.”
Great“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”
Nature“Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.”
Strength“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.”
Change“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.”
Friendship“Acorns were good until bread was found.”
Good“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
Nature“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
Humor“The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.”
Art“If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.”
Science“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.”
Anger“Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
Age“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
Nature“Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.”
Truth“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”
Gardening“Friends are thieves of time.”
Time“Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.”
God“God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.”
God“It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”
Power“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
Wisdom“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.”
Education