Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.