With strong natural sense, and rare force of will, he found himself, when first his mind began to open, a fatherless and motherless child, the chief of a great but depressed and disheartened party, and the heir to vast and indefinite pretensions, which excited the dread and aversion of the oligarchy then supreme in the United Provinces.

I dare say—I dare day—my good fellow. / Fellow not me—I won't be fellowed now; I say I have the best of it here—man to man—I am your match.

To rule, is vnderſtoode to haue the higheſt and ſupreme authoritie of commaundement.

After six months of twelve-hour workdays, most people just burn out and quit.