Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Acorns were good until bread was found.

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

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.