Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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 job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.