"Age doth not rectify, but rather confirm and harden, good or bad."

"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and better discovereth God's favour."

"The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men."

"Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be wi…"

"Silence is the virtue of fools."