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

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

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.