Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.