There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

Many dishes bring many diseases.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.