Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.