A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

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.

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.