Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
Life is a joke that's just begun.
Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.
After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.