Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.