The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.

How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!

He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.

He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.

Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We were never a phenomenon.

Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.

As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.

While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature of oneself.

In London, I really like going to the Mandarin Oriental. They can even do my feet without tickling me.

Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.