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

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.