The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
Man appoints, and God disappoints.
Every production must resemble its author.
Good Christians should never avenge injuries.
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
It takes all sorts (to make a world
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
Behind the cross is the devil.
A shy face is better than a forward heart.
She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
He that gives quickly gives twice.
He who reforms, God assists.
The little birds have God for their caterer.
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.
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