No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
Everything may happen.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.