Other fishes there were only a cubit long which had heads like owls.

What was it to me whether I were a modest plant, of half a cubit in stature, or the proudest oak of the forest--man or vegetable?

To conclude: no man can by care taking (as the Scripture saith) add a cubit to his stature, in this little model of a man's body; but in the great frame of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the power of princes or estates, to add amplitude and greatness to their kingdoms; for by introducing such ordinances, constitutions, and customs, as we have now touched, they may sow greatness to their posterity and succession.