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.

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.

No man is the wiser for his learning

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

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

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

First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.