In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

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.

All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.

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

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

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