To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, clear manifestation of reason, and that backed with the authority of the Scriptures, the fathers and schoolmen, and with all law both sacred and civil.

For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.

Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.