11 quotes found
“The past is the best way to suppose what may come.”
“Friendship cannot live with ceremony nor without civility.”
“A busy fool is fitter to be shut up than a downright madman.”
“Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen.”
“He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill but he will do very few things.”
“An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.”
“Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes.”
