"For neither do the spirits damned lose all their virtue, lest bad men should boast their specious deeds on earth."

"No man…can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself."

"The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread."

"That old man, as you say, who is blind and poor, or, to use your own words, 'blind, poor, and an outcast,' is a person who, on the contrary, is rich, and content with his lot, and far from being an ou…"

"What boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse?"