Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements, or as beauties and ornaments thereof; then an intellectual, consisting in those things which none underneath man is either capable of or acquainted with; lastly a spiritual and divine, consisting in those things whereunto we tend by supernatural means here, but cannot here attain unto them.
Richard HookerEven ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.
Richard HookerThe reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance
Richard Hooker