The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

No law is quite appropriate for all.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.