Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.

What is deferred is not avoided.

Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.