"I will eat exceedingly, and prophesy."

“He is a narrow-minded man, that affects a triumph in any glorious study; but to triumph in a lie, and a lie themselves have forged, is frontless. Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.”

“Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.”

“It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.”

“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”

“Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks...”

“He saw in a vision his eldest son appear unto him with the mark of a bloody cross on his forehead, as if it had been cutted with a sword, at which amazed he prayed unto God, and in the morning he came to Mr. Camden's chamber to tell him, who persuaded him it was but an apprehension of his fantasy at which he should not be disjected; in the meantime comes there letters from his wife of the death of that boy in the plague. He appeared to him of a manly shape, and of that growth that he thinks he shall be at the resurrection.”