"Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights."

"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures."

"For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and unruffled mirror, but is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not with judgment and industry regulated…"

"There is in human nature generally, more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties, by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken, are most potent."

"Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than plausible, and more advised than confident."