God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.