All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

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.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.