"For what can war but acts of war produce? And what can acts of war but wars breed?"

"Chaos umpire sits, and by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all."

"New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large."

"He who marries a wife, and knows not how to rule her, is like him who takes a wild beast into his house, and knows not how to tame it."

"How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns."