Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of large loaves will not buy grain before two o'clock. This will enable the people of the town to obtain their supply first. Bakers shall put a distinctive trademark on their loaves, and keep weights and scales in their shops, under penalty of having their licenses removed.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Who will be my equal?

Did you think I was immortal?

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.