Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

Wise judges are we of each other!