For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?