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.

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

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

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.

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.