Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

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.

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.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.