Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

The proof is in the pudding.

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

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

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

He preaches well that lives well

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.