Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.