If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to be the first, and where the third to be the second and so forth.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.