If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
If we still advise we shall never do.
Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it.