Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

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.

Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.

We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.