The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

A gallant man is above ill words.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

Old friends are best.

The Hall was the place where the great lord used to eat . . . He ate not in private, except in time of sickness . . . Nay, the king himself used to eat in the Hall, and his lords sat with him, and he understood men.

The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.