... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.

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

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

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

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

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