Abstinence is approved of God.

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

To keep demands as much skill as to win.

Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And let him seen a mous go by the wal; Anon he weyveth milk, and flesh, and al, And every deyntee that is in that hous, Swich appetyt hath he to ete a mous.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.