'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.

Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.

So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.