Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.