Passions Unguided Are For The Most Part

Prophecy Is Many Times The Principal Cause Of The Events Foretold.

Leisure Can Be One Of The Mothers Of Philosophy.

A Great Leap In The Dark

Such Is The Nature Of Men, That Howsoever They May Acknowledge Many Others To Be More Witty, Or More Eloquent, Or More Learned; Yet They Will Hardly Believe There Be Many So Wise As Themselves.

By How Much One Man Has More Experience Of Things Past, Than Another, By So Much Also He Is More Prudent, And His Expectations The Seldomer Fail Him.