All our geese are swans.
Henry Burton.
“Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.”
“Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter some of them in hell.”
“Penny wise pound foolish.”
“They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.”
“They are proud in humility proud in that they are not proud.”
“One religion is as true as another.”
“You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before because of the joy they ...”
“The pursuit of the perfect then is the pursuit of sweetness and light.”
“Every sweet hath its sour every evil its good.”