The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

La vraye science et le vray ètude de l’homme, c’est l’homme.
The true science and study of man is man.
‘De la Sagesse’ (1601) bk. 1, preface.
3.80 Salmon Portland Chase 1808-73
The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of
indestructible States.
Decision in Texas v. White, 7 Wallace, 725
3.81 Earl of Chatham
See William Pitt (4.64) in Volume II
3.82 Chateaubriand François-Renè, Viconte de Chateaubriand 1768-1848
L’ècrivain original n’est pas celui qui n’imite personne, mais celui que personne ne peut imiter.
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by
none.
‘Gènie du Christianisme’ (1802)
3.83 Geoffrey Chaucer c.1343-1400
Line references are to The Riverside Chaucer (ed. F. N. Robinson, 3rd ed., 1987)
Ful craftier to pley she was
Than Athalus, that made the game
First of the ches, so was his name.
‘The Book of the Duchess’ l. 662
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The General Prologue’ l. 1
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(So priketh hem nature in hir corages),
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages.
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The General Prologue’ l. 9
He loved chivalrie,
Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The General Prologue’ l. 45
He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The General Prologue’ l. 72
He was as fressh as is the month of May.
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The General Prologue’ l. 92
He koude songes make and wel endite.