To Make Women Learned And Foxes Tame

I Can Make A Lord, But Only God Can Make A Gentleman.

On Tobacco: A Branch Of The Sin Of Drunkenness, Which Is The Root Of All Sins.

It Is One Of God's Blessings That We Cannot Foreknow The Hour Of Our Death; For A Time Fixed, Even Beyond The Possibility Of Living, Would Trouble Us More Than Doth This Uncertainty.

If I Were Not A King, I Would Be A University Man; And If It Were So That I Must Be A Prisoner, If I Might Have My Wish, I Would Desire To Have No Other Prison Than That Library [the Bodleian].

I Will Govern According To The Common Weal, But Not According To The Common Will.