We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.