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

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

Who will be my equal?

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

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

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.