An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of…

He disdains all things above his reach, and preferreth all countries above his own.

In part to blame is she, Which hath without consent bin only tride: He comes to neere that comes to be denide.

In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

The spider-men came first, and presented her Majesty with a table full of mathematical points, lines and figures of all sorts of squares, circles, triangles, and the like; which the Empress, notwithstanding that she had a very ready wit, …

I am the greatest landowner in the world.

[T]he past was supreme; the priest who cherished it lived in a realm of shadows, and for the contemporary world he had no vital meaning. Likewise in Babylon the same retrospective spirit was now the dominant characteristic of the reviving …