A King Is A Thing Men Have

Fine Wits Destroy Themselves With Their Own Plots, In Meddling With Great Affairs Of State.

Equity Is A Roguish Thing. For Law We Have A Measure, Know What To Trust To; Equity Is According To The Conscience Of Him That Is Chancellor, And As That Is Larger Or Narrower, So Is Equity. 't Is All One As If They Should Make The Standard For The Measure We Call A "foot" A Chancellor's Foot; What An Uncertain Measure Would This Be! One Chancellor Has A Long Foot, Another A Short Foot, A Third An Indifferent Foot. 't Is The Same Thing In The Chancellor's Conscience.

Nothing Is Text But What Is Spoken Of In The Bible And Meant There For Person And Place; The Rest Is Application; Which A Discreet Man May Do Well; But It Is His Scripture, Not The Holy Ghost's. First, In Your Sermons Use Your Logic, And Then Your Rhetoric; Rhetoric Without Logic Is Like A Tree With Leaves And Blossoms, But No Root.

In Quoting Of Books, Quote Such Authors As Are Usually Read; Others You May Read For Your Own Satisfaction, But Not Name Them.

A Gallant Man Is Above Ill Words.