The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.