Menu
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
God’s first creature, which was light.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
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.