This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.