Young heads take example of the ancient

I would not open windows into men's souls.

The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.

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

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

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.

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