Nothing Of Worth Or Weight Can Be

If Men Are Wont To Play With Swearing Anywhere, Can We Expect They Should Be Serious And Strict Therein At The Bar Or In The Church.

An Accomplished Mathematician, I.e. A Most Wretched Orator.

Chance Never Writ A Legible Book; Chance Never Built A Fair House; Chance Never Drew A Neat Picture; It Never Did Any Of These Things, Nor Ever Will; Nor Can It Be Without Absurdity Supposed Able To Do Them; Which Yet Are Works Very Gross And Rude, Very Easy And Feasible, As It Were, In Comparison To The Production Of A Flower Or A Tree.

Slander Is A Complication, A Comprisal And Sum Of All Wickedness.

Virtue Is Not A Mushroom, That Springeth Up Of Itself In One Night When We Are Asleep, Or Regard It Not; But A Delicate Plant, That Groweth Slowly And Tenderly, Needing Much Pains To Cultivate It, Much Care To Guard It, Much Time To Mature It, In Our Untoward Soil, In This World's Unkindly Weather.