Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.

it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

Your wits make others witty.

to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.

Don't worry about things you cannot alter