The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
When a new book appears one should read an old one.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.