The world cannot be governed without juggling.

To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

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

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.

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

Money makes a man laugh.