The man without a navel still lives in me.

I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

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

I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.

Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.