"The most part of all your princes have more delight in warlike matters and the feats of hunting than in the good arts of peace."

"If the bishops would do their duty, the king would never have fallen into this error."

"They think that the enjoyment of the pleasures of life is the end of all our actions."

"They detest war as a very brutal thing, and which, to the reproach of human nature, is more practiced by beasts than by men."

"I reckoned that I had not so much as a groat in the world."