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

It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

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

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

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.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.