"The devil, in his malice, has put into the world a great number of books that are called chivalric romances, which, though they are full of lies and follies, are read with great pleasure by many peopl…"

"Tell me what company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are."

"For good and evil, life and death, and all things, are in the power of the tongue."

"The man who is prudent and discreet is more formidable than the man who is bold and rash."

"Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."