A gallant man is above ill words.

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

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.

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.