The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.