I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.