As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure, In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pier…

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noisele…