The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

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.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.