The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

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.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.