The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Blessings on him, who invented sleep.

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause