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.

Money makes a man laugh.

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.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

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

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.