There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.