A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

Time is the author of authors.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

People prefer to believe what they want to be true.