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.

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

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.