Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

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

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.

Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?