In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

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

The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.

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.

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

The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.