"For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next ages."

"The greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curio…"

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

"A man's nature, runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other."

"For as in a looking-glass, when the face is once gone, it is gone for ever; so in memory, when a thing is once forgotten, it is gone for ever."