The Virtue Of Prosperity Is Temperance; The

An Artist Must Learn To Be Nourished By His Passions And By His Despairs.

Religion Brought Forth Riches, And The Daughter Devoured The Mother.

But By Far The Greatest Hindrance And Aberration Of The Human Understanding Proceeds From The Dullness, Incompetency, And Deceptions Of The Senses; In That Things Which Strike The Sense Outweigh Things Which Do Not Immediately Strike It, Though They Be More Important. Hence It Is That Speculation Commonly Ceases Where Sight Ceases; Insomuch That Of Things Invisible There Is Little Or No Observation.

Ill Fortune Never Crushed That Man Whom Good Fortune Deceived Not.

Books Will Speak Plain When Counselors Blanch.