Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.