dulce es la guerra para los que no la han experimentado. - Erasmus

I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.

Nothing can be called unhappy if it fulfils its own nature, unless you would conclude that a man ought to be pitied because he cannot fly about with the birds, and cannot run on four feet like the whole family of beasts, and is not armed with horns like a bull.

Bir hükümdar öyle bir konumdadır ki, doğruluktan azıcık bel verse bu büyük bir veba gibi yayılarak bütün halkı sarar.