It requires a long time to know anyone.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.