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.

A gallant man is above ill words.

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

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.

Marriage is a desperate thing.

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

They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.