Who loses a day loses life.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.