We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

Death-counterfeiting sleep.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

Lovers ever run before the clock