Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

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.

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

A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.