Gen Quotes

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.