A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back.

Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.