When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.
The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)