We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.

Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.

No man is the wiser for his learning

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.

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.

All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.