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

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

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

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.

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

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.