Beware, gentle knight – the greatest monster of them all is reason.
History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.
Tomorrow will be a new day.
Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the ’versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
Good Christians should never avenge injuries.
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
A stout heart breaks bad luck.
One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
We must not stand upon trifles.
For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.
Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
Let the worst come to the worst.