I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

How near to good is what is fair!

A good king is a public servant.

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.

Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.