The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.