Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon Quotes
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
Boldness is a child of ignorance.
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.