There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.