Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty.
Robert BoyleFemale beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.
Robert BoyleHe that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.
Robert BoyleAs the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.
Robert BoyleI look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body, furthers those motions and other things, that he judges conducive to the welfare and recovery of it; but as to those, that he perceives likely to be hurtful, either by increasing the disease, or otherwise endangering the patient, he thinks it is his part to oppose or hinder, though nature do manifestly enough seem to endeavour the exercising or carrying on those hurtful motions.
Robert Boyle