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.
If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.