Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
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.
The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.
For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.