The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

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

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

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

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.

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