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

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.

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

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

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

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