Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.