Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.