If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.