History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

A true friend is a sort of second self.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.