Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

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

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.