No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.