Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Where shame is, there is also fear.

But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

Where all life dies death lives.