It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

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

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.

Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.

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

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.