Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you must put on your plate. Also it is a great breach of etiquette when your fingers are dirty and greasy, to bring them to your mouth in order to lick them, or to clean them on your jacket. It would be more decent to use the tablecloth.

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.