Great people create great acts of kindness.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.