Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.