Never promise thyself security in this life, howsoever good a monk or devout a solitary thou seemest.

They are not capable, for the reason that their minds, howsoever good they may be, are not trained for such examinations.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

Then the gold was brought up and the wedding celebrated; but howsoever much the young King loved his wife, and however happy he was, he still said always: "If I could but shudder-if I could but shudder."

That side is plenty clear enough to him, but he can't and won't see the other side, to-wit: that you are a rascal if you put your hall-mark upon a thing which you did not produce yourself, howsoever good it may be.

"But none who came thereto might avail to pull it out, for in nowise would it come away howsoever they tugged at it, but now up comes Sigmund, King Volsung's son, and sets hand to the sword, and pulls it from the stock, even as if it lay loose before him."