Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.