There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.