Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.