What is bought is cheaper than a gift.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

He had a face like a blessing.

Get out of harms way.

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.