A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Truth is a naked and open daylight