By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Nature itself cannot err

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.