A bank against it; nothing but the round
Large clasp of nature such a wit can bound."
One's pen cannot be better drawn across paper, than in transcribing some of his wise and pithy sayings:—
"Books. 'Tis good to have translators, because they serve as a comment, so far as the judgment of the man goes."
"Quoting of authors is most for matter of fact; and then I cite them as I would produce a witness, sometimes for a free expression; and then I give the author his due, and gain myself praise for reading him."
"Henry the Eighth made a law that all men might read the Scripture, except servants; but no woman except ladies and gentlewomen who had leisure and might ask somebody the meaning. The law was repealed in Edward Sixth's days."
"Laymen have best interpreted the hard places in the Bible, such as Scaliger, Grotius, Salmasius, etc. The text serves only to guess by; we must satisfy ourselves fully out of the authors that lived about those times."
"Ceremony. Ceremony keeps up all things. 'Tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, the spirit lost."
"Damnation. To preach long, loud, and damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him to save us."
"Friends. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes, they were easiest to his feet."