There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Simplicity is a delicate imposition.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.

The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.