There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

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.

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.