The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate
Fortune his like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
The poets did well to conjoin Music And Medicine in Apollo: because the office of medicine is but to tune this curious harp of man's body and to reduce it to harmony.
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.