Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.

Affection! Affection is false.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.

I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.