The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

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.

Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.