There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.

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

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.