By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.

Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

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

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

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.