The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.