» Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
» And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
» Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
» Pride the first peer and president of hell.
» Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.