The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.