If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.

Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.

It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.

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

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

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