If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

The wisest fool in Christendom.

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.