Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.