Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

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.

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

Friends are thieves of time.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.