Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.