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.

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

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

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

Wise judges are we of each other!

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.