To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

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

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

The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are the substantial part of the world; like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

When the candles are out all women are fair.