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.

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.