Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
“Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.”
It is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. Human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.