The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.

God defend me from myself.