Opportunity makes a thief.

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.