If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.

Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.

I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.

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