Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Wise judges are we of each other!

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.