There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.