Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.