John Ray

“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.”

“Diseases are the tax on pleasures.”

“In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.”

“Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.”

“Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.”

“Never meet trouble half-way.”

“Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.”

“Misery loves company.”

“Good words cool more than cold water.”

“Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.”