Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

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

There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.