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.

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.

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

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application; which a discreet man may do well; but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. 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.

The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.