A lie is an excuse guarded

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.