Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.