Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

Honesty's the best policy.

Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.

Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Good Christians should never avenge injuries.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.