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.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.

In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.