Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.