The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.