To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, vain and irresolute authors.