Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Nothing is to be feared but fear.
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
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.