Let valour end my life!

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.

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.

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.