"As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face."

"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."

"To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."

"Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him."

"Joh. Mayor, in the first book of his "History of Scotland," contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten br…"

"I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."

"Our wrangling lawyers... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their client…"