Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.