A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.