Great men are almost always bad men.
Official truth is not actual truth.
The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.