What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.