Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.