"Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another."

"If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case."

"Let not a man's self be to him all in all."

"Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion."

"An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him."

"Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit."

"Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself."

"Believe things, rather than man."

"No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty."

"It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state."