A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare . . . There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare.

Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

Philosophy is the art of living.

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.