When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

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.

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.