Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.