He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

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.

Marriage is a desperate thing.

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

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

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.