In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

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.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.