The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

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

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

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