There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was.""

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.

"Medicine is a science which hath been, as we have said, more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced; the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in a circle than in progression."

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."