Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.

O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.

Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.