My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord – he wants Milan, and so do I.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord – he wants Milan, and so do I.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

I came, I saw, God conquered.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.