Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.

The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.

To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

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

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.