Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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.

The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.