Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.