The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Innovations, which are the births of time.