John Aubrey Quotes

His Comoedies will remaine witt as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum [the ways of mankind]. Now our present writers reflect so much on particular persons and coxcombeities that twenty yeares hence they will not be understood.

Sciatica: he cured it, by boyling his buttock.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more then his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men, he should have knowne no more than other men.

He pronounced the letter R (littera canina) very hard – a certaine signe of a Satyricall Witt.

Dr. Kettle was wont to say that Seneca writes as a Boare does pisse, scilicet by jirkes.