"Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse; envy alone wants both. Other sins last but for awhile; the gut may be satisfied, anger remits, hatred hath an end, envy never ceaseth."

"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied."

"Be not solitary, be not idle."

"What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of desperation?"

"They have cheveril consciences that will stretch."

"Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves."

"A good conscience is a continual feast."

"Melancholy and despair, though often, do not always concur; there is much difference: melancholy fears without a cause, this upon great occasion; melancholy is caused by fear and grief, but this torment procures them and all extremity of bitterness."

"One religion is as true as another."

"When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done."

"Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place."

"The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies."

"Out of too much learning become mad."

"The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience."

"For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness."

"If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled."

"Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel."

"Make a virtue of necessity."

"As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face."

"The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill."

"England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes."

"I light my candle from their torches."

"Going as if he trod upon eggs."

"Though it rain daggers with their points downward."

"Diogenes struck the father when the son swore."

"Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven."

"To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance."

"[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels.""

"He is only fantastical that is not in fashion."

"Diogenes struck the father when the son swore, because he taught him no better."

"To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."

"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."

"Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all."

"And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard."

"And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator."

"Birds of a feather will gather together."

"Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end."

"Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play."

"Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases...but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul."