Law is the ultimate science.

All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.