A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'