All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.