Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

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

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

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

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.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.