There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

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

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.