Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

Believe there are no limits but the sky.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.