Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.