Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

Miracle me no miracles.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.