Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
