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

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.

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

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

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

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.