It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

You can't pray a lie.

Get the facts first. You can distort them later.

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.