It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.
On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.
Were I not a king, I would be a university man.
I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.
I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.