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

I make war on the living, not the dead..

Iron hand in a velvet glove..

Those who believe in ghosts always see them..

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

Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, ….

A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong..

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree..

I came, I saw, God conquered..

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