The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.