And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, / But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.