Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law