To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.