The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.