When A Man Makes Up

If I Were Not A King, I Would Be A University Man; And If It Were So That I Must Be A Prisoner, If I Might Have My Wish, I Would Desire To Have No Other Prison Than That Library [the Bodleian].

That Which Concerns The Mystery Of The King's Power Is Not Lawful To Be Disputed; For That Is To Wade Into The Weakness Of Princes, And To Take Away The Mystical Reverence That Belongs Unto Them That Sit In The Throne Of God.

On Tobacco: A Branch Of The Sin Of Drunkenness, Which Is The Root Of All Sins.

It Is One Of God's Blessings That We Cannot Foreknow The Hour Of Our Death; For A Time Fixed, Even Beyond The Possibility Of Living, Would Trouble Us More Than Doth This Uncertainty.

That Which We Call Wit Consists Much In Quickness And Tricks, And Is So Full Of Lightness That It Seldom Goes With Judgment And Solidity; But When They Do Meet, It Is Commonly In An Honest Man.