Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.