Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

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

And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.