Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

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

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

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 fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.