Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.
Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.
States, as great engines, move slowly.