Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.