Our civilization depends largely on paper.

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike to this Lilly, save that it yeeldeth no smell nor hath those chives within; for whitenesse they resemble one another very much, as if Nature in making this floure were a learning and trying her skill how to frame the Lilly indeed.