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

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort me at the close of this life but this passage of St. Paul: "It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." To this I cleave, and herein do I find rest.

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

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