"Best thing in eird, thairfoir, I say, for me, Is blyithnes in hart, with small possessioun."

"In breif Sermone ane pregnant sentence wryte."

"The nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch, Haldis the kirnill, and is delectabill. Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wy…"

"Quha hes aneuch, of na mair hes he neid."

"For to be yong I wald not, for my wis Off all this warld to mak me lord et king: The more of age the nerar hevynnis b…"

"The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald."

"Nocht is your fairnes bot ane faiding flour, Nocht is your famous laud and hie honour Bot wind Inflat in uther mennis…"

"Than upon him scho kest up baith hir Ene, And with ane blenk it come into his thocht, That he sumtime hir face befoir…"

"Lovers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair is richt …"

"Of Henryson as of Chaucer it can be said that the picturesque detail owes its effectiveness to the solidity and serio…"