Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
A first impulse was never a crime.
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.