Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.