We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.