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.

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

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

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.

'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.