"A man's nature, runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other."

"For there is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

"A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time."

"The greatest objection to a monarch cannot be made without a paradox; for it is that he is too great to be good."

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."