The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.

Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.