The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

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

Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.