A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.

Great events have sent before them their announcements.

Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akin In missing each that salutory rein Of reason, and the grinding will of man.