All cruelty springs from weakness.

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.