Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.

O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.