The senate is a liberal paymaster to him who serves it well, and a fearful enemy to those who do harm to the state.

I hope the matter of the succession draws near a conclusion ?" "I wish it were possible to say it did.

I urge the tribunal in all proper assiduity, omitting no duty of personal respect nor of private solicitation.

Padua has not a doctor more learned than he who presents my right to their wisdom, and yet the affair lingers like life in the hectic.

If I have not shown myself a worthy son of St.Mark, in this affair with the Spaniard, it is more from the want of a habit of managing political interests than from any want of zeal." "The scales of justice must be nicely balanced to hang so long, without determining to one side or the other! You will have need of further assiduity, Don Camillo, and of great discretion in disposing the minds of the patricians in your favor.