A Gallant Man Is Above Ill Words.

In A Troubled State We Must Do As In Foul Weather Upon A River, Not Think To Cut Directly Through, For The Boat May Be Filled With Water; But Rise And Fall As The Waves Do, And Give Way As Much As We Conveniently Can.

'tis Not The Eating, Nor 'tis Not The Drinking That Is To Be Blamed, But The Excess.

Pleasures Are All Alike Simply Considered In Themselves: He That Hunts, Or He That Governs The Commonwealth, They Both Please Themselves Alike, Only We Commend That, Whereby We Ourselves Receive Some Benefit.

The Clergy Would Have Us Believe Them Against Our Own Reason, As The Woman Would Have Her Husband Against His Own Eyes.

Idolatry Is In A Man's Own Thought, Not In The Opinion Of Another.