There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.

A short retirement urges a sweet return.

The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!

And out of good still to find means of evil.

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!