Patience is a conquering virtue.
Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.