If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

All empire is no more than power in trust.