He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

It redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.

Riches are for spending.

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.