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

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

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

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 would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

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