Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.