The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

The fathers are not active parents.

I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate