A gallant man is above ill words.

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

When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.

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

In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.