To Gold And Silver Nature Hath Given

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.

Rose! Thou Art The Sweetest Flower That Ever Drank The Amber Shower: Even The Gods, Who Walk The Sky, Are Amourous Of Thy Scented Sigh.

The Most Part Of All Princes Have More Delight In Warlike Manners And Feats Of Chivalry Than In The Good Feats Of Peace.

By Reason Of Gifts And Bribes The Offices Be Given To Rich Men, Which Should Rather Have Been Executed By Wise Men.

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.