Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

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

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

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.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.