"Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight."

"It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt."

"To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar."

"I like a plantation in a pure soil; that is, where people are not displanted to the end to plant in others; for else it is rather an extirpation than a plantation."

"The most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in minds of some nobility."