When you are at Rome, do as you see.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

As ill-luck would have it.