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.

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

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.