Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

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

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.

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