A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

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.

Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

If we still advise we shall never do.

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

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.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.