Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

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

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.

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.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.