Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.

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

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.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

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

While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.