God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

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

I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.