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.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.