I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind