Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

Reading maketh a full man.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.