I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

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.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.