Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.
Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.