A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.

First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.

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

When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.

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

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.