Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Every dog must have his day.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Books, the children of the brain.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to foretell events