Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

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.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.