As in the beginning, so now, and it will be for ever after, we come of a race who are very bad managers in youth, though we improve as we get older. I have cut down the cost of my falconers to 1200 florins, and I hope soon to be out of debt.


William writing to his brother Louis, as quoted in William the Silent (1902) by Frederic Harrison, p. 10.

William the Silent Quotes

As in the beginning, so now, and it will be for ever after, we come of a race who are very bad managers in youth, though we improve as we get older....

As in the beginning, so now, and it will be for ever after, we come of a race who are very bad managers in youth, though we improve as we get older....

As in the beginning, so now, and it will be for ever after, we come of a race who are very bad managers in youth, though we improve as we get older....

As in the beginning, so now, and it will be for ever after, we come of a race who are very bad managers in youth, though we improve as we get older....