The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

After rain comes fair weather.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

Little sins are pioneers of hell.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.