Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.

If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.

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

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

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

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.