Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
I don't keep a dog and bark myself.
Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.