Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have