The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.
A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion
This is no time to be making new enemies.
The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.