C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Queen Elizabeth
A good face is the best letter of recommendation.
Chastity is the ermine of woman’s soul.
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
For me it will be enough that a marble stone should declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.
They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.