"He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."

"Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law."

"It is not possible to love and to be wise."

"Things done well, and with a good grace, are twice done."

"I like a plantation in a pure soil; that is, where people are not displanted to the end to plant in others; for else it is rather an extirpation than a plantation."