For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Give the devil his due.

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

Many littles make a much.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.