The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.

Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!

To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.