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.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.