The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?