Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.