An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

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

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.