Methods are the masters of masters.
Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.
A married man with a family will do anything for money.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.