Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.