Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.

Talk what you will of the Jews,--that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why, Christians hate one another as much.

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

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.

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.