The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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.)

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.