Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.