Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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.

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.)

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.