The heart that has truly loved never forgets.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.

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

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.