Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.

They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.

I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.

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

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.

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

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.