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

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

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.

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

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

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.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.