It Is A Strange Desire, To Seek

Man, Being The Servant And Interpreter Of Nature, Can Do And Understand So Much And So Much Only As He Has Observed In Fact Or Thought Of The Course Of Nature; Beyond This He Neither Knows Anything Nor Can Do Anything.

Chiefly The Mold Of A Man's Fortune Is In His Own Hands.

In Things That Are Tender And Unpleasing, It Is Good To Break The Ice By Some One Whose Words Are Of Less Weight, And To Reserve The More Weighty Voice To Come In As By Chance.

Innovations, Which Are The Births Of Time.

Money Is A Good Servant, A Dangerous Master.