On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.
When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.
Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.
Were I not a king, I would be a university man.
The wisest fool in Christendom.
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.