I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.