Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

The proof of the pudding is the eating.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.

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.