It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man.

[Erdmann argued that, in proclaiming the First Crusade, Pope Urban II was less interested in restoring the rights of Christians to make pilgrimages to the Holy Sepulchre than in unleashing] an ecclesiastical-knightly war upon heathens ... the conceptual change from armed pilgrim to soldier for the faith took place.

And the running blackberry, would adorn the parlor of heaven.

I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends.