Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

Law should be like death, which spares no one.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.