There's none so blind as they that won't see.

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.