There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

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.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.