Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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.