As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

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.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.