The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

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.

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.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.