Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

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.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

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

The Hall was the place where the great lord used to eat . . . He ate not in private, except in time of sickness . . . Nay, the king himself used to eat in the Hall, and his lords sat with him, and he understood men.

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

No man is the wiser for his learning