There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

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