The Hall was the place where the great lord used to eat . . . He ate not in private, except in time of sickness . . . Nay, the king himself used to eat in the Hall, and his lords sat with him, and he understood men.

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

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

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.

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

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