I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

Don't worry about things you cannot alter

What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Your wit makes others witty.

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.