With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.
Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.
The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury.