No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

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

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

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

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.

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.