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

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

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

'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit, Will condescend to take a bit

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

Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold, but gold is the touchstone whereby to try men.