Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

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.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.