A King Is A Thing Men Have

All Things Are God's Already; We Can Give Him No Right, By Consecrating Any, That He Had Not Before, Only We Set It Apart To His Service - Just As A Gardener Brings His Master A Basket Of Apricots, And Presents Them; His Lord Thanks Him, And Perhaps Gives Him Something For His Pains, And Yet The Apricots Were As Much His Lord's Before As Now.

The House Of Commons Is Called The Lower House, In Twenty Acts Of Parliament; But What Are Twenty Acts Of Parliament Amongst Friends?

Idolatry Is In A Man's Own Thought, Not In The Opinion Of Another.

Patience Is The Chiefest Fruit Of Study; A Man That Strives To Make Himself Different From Other Men By Much Reading Gains This Chiefest Good, That In All Fortunes He Hath Something To Entertain And Comfort Himself Withal.

In A Troubled State We Must Do As In Foul Weather Upon A River, Not Think To Cut Directly Through, For The Boat May Be Filled With Water; But Rise And Fall As The Waves Do, And Give Way As Much As We Conveniently Can.