How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.

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