Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
Great men always pay deference to greater.