Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.

Old friends are best.

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

A gallant man is above ill words.

Talk what you will of the Jews,--that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why, Christians hate one another as much.