The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.

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.

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.

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

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

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