How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.

A good king is a public servant.

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.