“people can die of mere imagination”

“How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.”

“the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people”

“If gold rusts, what then can iron do?”

“No empty handed man can lure a bird”

“Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire, The more it burns the more is its desire To burn up everything that burnt can be. You say that just as worms destroy a tree A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives. ”

“And once he had got really drunk on wine,Then he would speak no language but Latin.”