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

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

The Hall was the place where the great lord used to eat . . . He ate not in private, except in time of sickness . . . Nay, the king himself used to eat in the Hall, and his lords sat with him, and he understood men.

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

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

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.