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

Affection! Affection is false.

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.

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

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.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.