There Is One Thing Higher

Much Suspected By Me, Nothing Proved Can Be

Kings Were Wont To Honour Philosophers, But If I Had Such I Would Honour Them As Angels That Should Have Such Piety In Them That They Would Not Seek Where They Are The Second To Be The First, And Where The Third To Be The Second And So Forth.

A Strength To Harm Is Perilous In The Hand Of An Ambitious Head.

It Is A Natural Virtue Incident To Our Sex To Be Pitiful Of Those That Are Afflicted.

Of Myself I Must Say This, I Never Was Any Greedy, Scraping Grasper, Nor A Strait Fast-holding Prince, Nor Yet A Master; My Heart Was Never Set On Worldly Goods, But Only For My Subjects' Good.