The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

The proof is in the pudding.

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."