Giving words [is] an act of lovers.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth, do not be beguiledby these idle and useless pilgrimages. See to your families, and work, each one of you, in your vocation, raise your children, and live as the good Apostle Paul teaches you.

War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.