It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.

Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.