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

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

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

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

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

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

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.