"Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases...but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul."

"Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards."

"Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her."

"The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.""

"All places are distant from heaven alike."

"Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not."

"What can't be cured must be endured."

"Many things happen between the cup and the lip."

"Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing."

"Christ himself was poor... And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor."

"Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun."

"Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop."

"As he said in Machiavel, omnes eodem patre nati, Adam's sons, conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked; let us wear theirs and they our clothes, and what is the difference?""

"Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards; their worthiest captains, best wits, greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been base [born]."

"Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man."

"Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel."

"Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity."

"Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty."

"Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons."

"One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague."

"See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all."

"Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him.""

"Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword."

"We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars."

"They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud."

"Though they [philosophers] write contemptu gloriæ, yet as Hieron observes, they will put their names to their books."

"All our geese are swans."

"I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together."

"A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich."

"Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges."

"Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others."

"[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors."

"[Ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top."

"[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring."

"[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies."

"They do not live but linger."

"Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse; envy alone wants both. Other sins last but for awhile; the gut may be satisfied, anger remits, hatred hath an end, envy never ceaseth."

"A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better."

"Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?"

"Idleness is an appendix to nobility."

"No rule is so general, which admits not some exception."

"As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it."

"Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen."

"Joh. Mayor, in the first book of his "History of Scotland," contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread; it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base grain…. And yet Wecker out of Galen calls it horse-meat, and fitter juments than men to feed on."

"Can build castles in the air."

"[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio dæmonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings."

"Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long."

"Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer."

"Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him."

"Our wrangling lawyers... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter,—some of them in hell."