The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.

Death is the great leveller.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.

Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

Oh how quickly the world's glory passes away.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

I'm keeping an open mind as always, because that's what you have to do.

There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.

I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

I think part of being a good coach is knowing how to extract the best from different people.

I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesnt necessarily bother me.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.