After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.