That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

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

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

One who is allowed to sin, sins less

Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.