Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

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.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.

Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.