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.

A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.

Money makes a man laugh.

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

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

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

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