This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.