Fair play is a jewel.
The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.