Chiefly The Mold Of A Man's Fortune

He That Hath Wife And Children Hath Given Hostages To Fortune, For They Are Impediments To Great Enterprises, Either Of Virtue Or Mischief. Certainly The Best Works And Of Greatest Merit For The Public Have Proceeded From The Unmarried Or Childless Men, Which Both In Affection And Means Have Married And Endowed The Public. He Was Reputed One Of The Wise Men That Made Answer To The Question, When A Man Should Marrya Young Man Not Yet, An Elder Man Not At All.

Do Not Wonder If The Common People Speak More Truly Than Those Above Them: They Speak More Safely.

If Money Be Not Thy Servant, It Will Be Thy Master. The Covetous Man Cannot So Properly Be Said To Possess Wealth, As That May Be Said To Possess Him.

In One And The Same Fire, Clay Grows Hard And Wax Melts.

We Think According To Nature. We Speak According To Rules. We Act According To Custom.