Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

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.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.