Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.
Serendipity. . . You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.
While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.
We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows.
If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….
Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.
The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.
Princes are venison in Heaven.
Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights.
The quiet mind is richer than a crown. . . . Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.
There are so many girls, and so few princes.
Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.
It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.