And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

Business neglected is business lost.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.