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

...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.

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

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.