| Quotes |
Topic |
| Advice | The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them. |
| Appetite | My appetite comes to me while eating. |
| Boating | Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward. |
| Christianity | Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief. |
| Conscience | Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep. |
| Example | He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live. |
| Faces | You have your face bare; I am all face. |
| Faith | How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which to-day are fables to us! |
| Growth | Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their clubs into shape. |
| Humility | One may be humble out of pride. |
| Loss | A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself. |
| Medicine | Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him." |
| Medicine | How the Doctor's brow should smile, Crown'd with wreaths of camomile. |
| Necessity | Necessity is a violent school-mistress. |
| Nonsense | No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly. |
| Opinion | There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne, |
| Opinion | Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life. |
| Plagiarism | Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. |
| Proverbs | What's done can't be undone. |
| Proverbs | And neglected his task for the flowers on the way. |
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