Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

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.

The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.