Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.

Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself