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

"For the thereof, I cannot but say, that I found myself in a condition, which in truth I am not able to express, but by a kind of similitude. I was a man of a broken fortune, and of a broken health, an…"

"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."

"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."

"Ambition is like a choler, which makes an ill digestion, but a good appetite."