Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.