Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.

The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

God has joined the innocent with the guilty.