Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest