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A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity; in gluttons there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; it is not the eating, nor it is not the drinking, that is to be blamed, but the excess; so in pride.
JOHN SELDEN, Table-talk
I had rather do and not promise, than promise and not do.
JOHN SELDEN, Table-talk
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
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