Baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: there are three distinct persons: in the Name, not names; there is one essence.

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.

If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

Better a holy discord than a profane concord.

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.