Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.