My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

God's first creature, which was light.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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