Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.

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