In charity there is no excess.

Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.