It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.