I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
Friendship demands attention.
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.