If A Man Be Gracious

Nobility Of Birth Commonly Abateth Industry.

He That Hath Wife And Children Hath Given Hostages To Fortune; For They Are Impediments To Great Enterprises, Either Of Virtue Or Mischief.

The Human Understanding, When Any Preposition Has Been Once Laid Down... Forces Everything Else To Add Fresh Support And Confirmation; And Although More Cogent And Abundant Instances May Exist To The Contrary, Yet It Either Does Not Observe Them Or It Despises Them, Or It Gets Rid Of And Rejects Them By Some Distinction, With Violent And Injurious Prejudice, Rather Than Sacrifice The Authority Of Its First Conclusions.

Wives Are Young Men's Mistresses, Companions For Middle Age, And Old Men's Nurses.

The Colors That Show Best By Candlelight Are White, Carnation, And A Kind Of Sea-water Green.