Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

Come, agree, the law's costly.