Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

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

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.