Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.

Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?