No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

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

I am my nearest neighbour.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.