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.

Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

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

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.

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

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.