Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

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.

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

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

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

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.

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.