Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.

- Richard Hooker

Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.

- Richard Hooker

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

- Richard Hooker

Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine ha…

- Richard Hooker

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

- Richard Hooker

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth …

- Richard Hooker

The reason why the simpler sort are moved with authority, is the consciousness of their own ignorance; whereby it cometh to pass that having learned …

- Richard Hooker

So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility o…

- Richard Hooker

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

- Richard Hooker