“the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people”
“people can die of mere imagination”
“How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.”
“And once he had got really drunk on wine,Then he would speak no language but Latin.”
“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
“Ful wys is he that kan himselve knowe.”
“For hym was levere have at his beddes heedTwenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,Of Aristotle and his philosophie,Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.”