The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.

Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.